U-T Politics Panel on noncitizen jurors

No. We are a nation of laws and one of the most important is that we are tried with a jury of our peers presiding over the decision.

A jury of people without an allegiance to our laws or nation as citizens hurts the system.

There are benefits of becoming a U.S. citizen and this would be one of them.

We could never imagine ourselves going to, say, Mexico and being allowed to confer punishment on a Mexican citizen without the benefit of showing that we understand and take an oath to uphold those laws, could we?